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Let’s start today’s Now I Know with an apology: I should have shared this story two weeks ago [...]

You’re almost certainly familiar with the concept of a curfew. They are restrictions on what you can [...]

Hi!  I’m asking you for money today. Let’s make that clear upfront. And to be also clear: [...]

On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, as what is now known as the D-Day invasion of [...]

On August 31, 1957, Malaysia became a sovereign nation, securing its independence from the United Kingdom. [...]

Star Trek, the original series, ran from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969, with fans treated to a [...]

Hi!  If you’ve been reading Now I Know for a while now, you know that I welcome comments via [...]

Carrie Moore was born in 1846, the daughter of a Kentucky farmer. Her family moved around a lot during the [...]

In November of 1992, Dave Dixon, a horse trainer from Workington, England bought a washing machine [...]

Depicted above is Pinocchio, in this case, from the 1940 Disney movie. Pinocchio, if you’re somehow not [...]